Switzerland - The Graduate Institute, Geneva

UPPSALA PROGRAM ON RELIGION AND CONFLICT
Address Not indicated, no formal institution.
Phone
Fax
Web www.religionandconflict.net
E-Mail
Peter.Brune@life-peace.org (member of steering
group)
Category Research & Knowledge
MISSION STATEMENT
The Uppsala Program on Religion and Conflict is an attempt to link scholars in different research institutions sharing a research
interest in the relationship between religion, conflict, and peace. While not a formal institution, the Program is a platform for research
and publication initiatives of cross-scientific nature. It is guided by a steering group consisting of scholars from three different
institutions: Uppsala University, the Life and Peace Institute, and the Church of Sweden.
Founding year Not indicated.
2007 Workshop Planning:
BACKGROUND AND ACTIVITIES
At the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University a project has been initiated to map religious dimensions in
armed conflicts around the world in connection with the Department’s well known, already existing conflict database
www.pcr.uu.se/database/index.php.
In a workshop, planned during 2007, the Life & Peace Institute, Uppsala, together with the Department of Peace and Conflict
Research wants to discuss, illustrate and study the religious dimension of armed conflict, developed within a theoretical framework,
and examine primarily in ongoing conflicts where religious factors are believed to play a role. At the workshop, a presentation of how
the database is used when it comes to examining these questions will be made. By creating new data on both religious identities and
parties' explicit positions, the Uppsala Programme on Religion and Conflict explores questions relating to whether religious
incompatibilities and / or difference in religious identities tend to make armed conflict more or less prone for peaceful resolution.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Svensson, I., L. Minnhagen, et al. (2005). Rebellion, Religion and Resolution: Exploring the Religious Dimensions of Peace
Agreements (draft), Uppsala University / Program on Religion and Conflicts: 1-21.
REMARKS
Members of the Steering Group:
Peter Brune: Director, The Life & Peace Institute, Uppsala.
Kjell-Åke Nordquist: Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Peace and Conflict Research,
Uppsala University, Uppsala.
Isak Svensson: PhD candidate, Dept. of Peace and Conflict Research,
Uppsala University, Uppsala.
Göran Gunner: Researcher, Church of Sweden Research Council, Uppsala.